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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 30, 1998Guadalupe County, San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1998, 6:46 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 30, 1998, 6:46 PM MDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 1998, 7:45 PM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties Guadalupe County, NM, San Miguel County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 164 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1998-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 424 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1998-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
424 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 30, 6:00 PM MDT, 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
600 PM MDT THU JUL 30 1998

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0435 PM    CLINES CORNERS            NM   .75 INCH HAIL
07/30/98   TORRANCE                       ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN
                                          AND STRONG WINDS
Local storm report, Jul 30, 6:07 PM MDT, 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
607 PM MDT THU JUL 30 1998

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0425 PM    GALLINAS                  NM   FLOODING
07/30/98   SAN MIGUEL                     FLASH FLOODING AND SMALL
                                          HAIL REPORTED BY FIRE DEPT

0515 PM    LAS VEGAS                 NM   FLOODING
07/30/98   SAN MIGUEL                     FLASH FLOODING. 2.5 INCHES
                                          RAIN BTWEEN 1530 AND 1630
                                          MDT.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 6:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion62 min
Jul 30, 6:55 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQDe Baca, Quay2 hr
Jul 30, 6:55 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQCurry2 hr
Jul 30, 7:48 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQHarding, Union102 min
Jul 30, 7:48 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel102 min
Jul 30, 8:59 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQCurry, Quay, Roosevelt3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.